Clearly, shut them down and run up gas prices that will fix everything. For someone who constantly complains about the burden on the middle class I have to wonder if you even thought this through. Probably not.
You see no problem with the fact that the reason they are out that far is because environmentalists threw a fit when they were closer to the shores, where they have more experience drilling.
Yes the situation sucks, yes I feel badly for the damage that has occurred and hasn't even happened yet but shutting it down entirely is acting irrationally to a situation.
Like it or not, the damage to our economy will be less from this than it would be from $5 gas.
June 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM
If this video of Dr. Michio Kaku telling Matt Lauer just how completely fubared we are out in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't scare the crap out of you, nothing will.
"You would have to win the lottery to get on the first try an exact, an exact meeting at the bottom of the well in order to pump cement to shut it off," Kaku told NBC's Matt Lauer Wednesday.
If the attempt fails, the drill will be reversed, the hole will be filled with cement and they will try again.
"You have to do this over and over again until you get it just right," Kaku said. "It takes many tries. So August is optimistic."
"So this could be spewing oil for months. Could it last for a year?" asked Lauer.
"It could last for years, plural. Okay? If everything fails and all these different kinds of relief wells don't work, it could be spewing stuff into the Gulf until we have dead zones, entire dead zones in the Gulf. For years," Kaku said.Years.
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Close this window Jump to comment formClearly, shut them down and run up gas prices that will fix everything. For someone who constantly complains about the burden on the middle class I have to wonder if you even thought this through. Probably not.
You see no problem with the fact that the reason they are out that far is because environmentalists threw a fit when they were closer to the shores, where they have more experience drilling.
Yes the situation sucks, yes I feel badly for the damage that has occurred and hasn't even happened yet but shutting it down entirely is acting irrationally to a situation.
June 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM
Then enjoy your $5 gas.
Like it or not, the damage to our economy will be less from this than it would be from $5 gas.
June 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM